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Meme: Culture, Politics, Applications & Measurement

A meme (/miːm/ ⓘ; MEEM) is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation (mimesis) from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme. A meme acts as a unit for carrying cultural ideas, symbols, or practices, that can be transmitted from one mind to another through…

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Meme topic overview

The analysis highlights Culture, Politics, Applications and Measurement as prominent areas in the source structure around Meme.

Related topics
172
Source areas
12
Connected nodes
184
Extracted relationships
187
Concept neighborhoods
33
Bridge connections
184

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Origins · 27 topics
Overview · 26 topics
Memetic lifecycle: transmission, retention · 22 topics
Applications · 17 topics
Memetics · 17 topics
Memes as discrete units · 15 topics
Religion · 15 topics
Internet culture · 14 topics
Evolutionary influences on memes · 8 topics
Etymology · 5 topics
Architectural memes · 4 topics
Politics · 2 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

Etymology

Origins

Memetic lifecycle: transmission, retention

Memes as discrete units

Evolutionary influences on memes

Memetics

Applications

Religion

Architectural memes

Internet culture

Politics

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Meme connects Entity context

The extracted context around Meme shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Meme → Article Meme, Bülow, Christopher, Counter-meme, Dawkins, Dawkins's, Enzyklopädie Philosophie, Evolution, Godwin, Journal, Jürgen Mittelstraß, Memes, Memetics, Metzler, Mike, November, Oxford Union, Retrieved, Richard Dawkins, Stuttgart/Weimar Another extracted example is Meme → Alternatively, Daniel Dennett, David Hull, Dawkins, Dennett, For, He, However, Initially, Internet, Internet Memetic's, Limor Shifman, Regardless, She, Shifman, Susan Blackmore, Thus. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Meme

Top relations

related to External links · 26
Meme → Article Meme, Bülow, Christopher, Counter-meme, Dawkins, Dawkins's, Enzyklopädie Philosophie, Evolution, Godwin, Journal, Jürgen Mittelstraß, Memes, Memetics, Metzler, Mike, November, Oxford Union, Retrieved, Richard Dawkins, Stuttgart/Weimar
related to After Dawkins: Role of physical media · 17
Meme → Alternatively, Daniel Dennett, David Hull, Dawkins, Dennett, For, He, However, Initially, Internet, Internet Memetic's, Limor Shifman, Regardless, She, Shifman, Susan Blackmore, Thus
related to Architectural memes · 11
Meme → Architectural, Architecture, Dawkins, He, Images, In, Nikos Salingaros, Salingaros, Taking, Theory, They
related to Criticism of meme theory · 11
Meme → Daniel, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, Dennett, DNA, For, In, Luis Benitez-Bribiesca, One, Principal, Questions, This
related to Politics · 11
Meme → At, Brazil, Disinformation, In, In Chagas, Internet, Memes, Overall, Some, The, United States
related to Memes as discrete units · 10
Meme → Beethoven's, Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, Dawkins, John, She, Susan Blackmore, The, This, While, Wilkins
has application · 9
Meme → Bruce Edmonds, Daniel Dennett, Joseph Poulshock, One, Opinions, Others, Proponents, Robert Aunger, Susan Blackmore
related to Dawkins · 8
Meme → Cavalli-Sforza, Cloak, Cullen, Dawkins, For Dawkins, Richard Dawkins, The, The Selfish Gene
related to Etymology · 8
Meme → Ancient Greek, British, Dawkins, Examples, IPA-label-small, Richard Dawkins, The, The Selfish Gene
related to Memetics · 8
Meme → Austrian, Based, Dawkin's, German, Memetics, The Selfish Gene, Thus, While

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

memes cultural ideas evolution dawkins gene may transmission theory memetics one evolutionary idea internet culture unit biological imitation religious genes

Meme relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 187 structured relationships around Meme. Examples in this analysis include Meme → is a → shortening and fads → instance of → Social contagions. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Memeis ashortening0.90text
fadsinstance ofSocial contagions0.80text
hysteriainstance ofSocial contagions0.80text
copycat crimeinstance ofSocial contagions0.80text
and copycat suicide exemplify memes seen as the contagious imitation of ideasinstance ofSocial contagions0.80text
yawninginstance ofObservers distinguish the contagious imitation of memes from instinctively contagious phenomena0.80text
laughinginstance ofObservers distinguish the contagious imitation of memes from instinctively contagious phenomena0.80text
which they consider innateinstance ofObservers distinguish the contagious imitation of memes from instinctively contagious phenomena0.80text
eye colorinstance ofshe notes evolution selects for the gene for features0.80text
a video or a pictureinstance ofsingular informational objects which spread with a particular rate and veracity0.80text
genesinstance ofand that evolution does not apply only to organic elements0.80text
hammering a nailinstance ofTake for example the case of the transmission of a simple skill0.80text

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Meme bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Cultural, Unit and Theory. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Meme
    • Cultural
    • Unit
    • Theory
    • Memes
    • Transmission
    • Gene
    • One
    • Internet
    • Evolutionary
    • Dawkins
    • Replication
    • Term
  • meme
    • Cultural
    • Unit
    • Theory
    • Memes
    • Transmission
    • Gene
    • One
    • Internet
    • Evolutionary
    • Dawkins
    • Replication
    • Term
  • cultural
    • Unit
    • Meme
    • Dawkins
    • Theory
    • Memes
    • One
    • Transmission
    • Imitation
    • Units
    • Evolutionary
    • Memetics
    • Social
  • internet meme
    • Cultural
    • Unit
    • Theory
    • Memes
    • Transmission
    • Memetics
    • Gene
    • One
    • Internet
    • Meme
    • Evolutionary
    • Dawkins
  • biological evolution
    • Evolution
    • Dawkins
    • Selection
    • Genes
    • Culture
    • Gene
    • Memes
    • May
    • Memetic
    • Units
    • Evolutionary
    • One
  • evolutionary model
    • Gene
    • Imitation
    • Dawkins
    • Replication
    • Genes
    • Unit
    • Memetics
    • Meme
    • Selection
    • Theory
    • View
    • Example
  • richard dawkins
    • Evolution
    • Gene
    • Genes
    • Evolutionary
    • Unit
    • Idea
    • One
    • Imitation
    • Meme
    • Selection
    • Term
    • Theory
  • evolutionary biologist
    • Gene
    • Imitation
    • Dawkins
    • Replication
    • Genes
    • Unit
    • Memetics
    • Meme
    • Selection
    • Theory
    • View
    • Example

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Meme, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Meme with Origins. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
MemeOrigins · splits 157 ⟂ 28
MemeOverview · splits 158 ⟂ 27
MemeMemetic lifecycle: transmission, retention · splits 162 ⟂ 23
MemeMemetics · splits 167 ⟂ 18
MemeApplications · splits 167 ⟂ 18
MemeMemes as discrete units · splits 169 ⟂ 16
MemeReligion · splits 169 ⟂ 16
MemeInternet culture · splits 170 ⟂ 15
MemeEvolutionary influences on memes · splits 176 ⟂ 9
MemeEtymology · splits 179 ⟂ 6
MemeArchitectural memes · splits 180 ⟂ 5
MemePolitics · splits 182 ⟂ 3

Map overview Semantic statistics

Meme

Nodes185
Edges184
Triples187
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.010811
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Meme to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Culture, Politics, Applications & Measurement, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Meme · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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